Lonely

Who else is going to love someone like me that's marked for death?
Who else is going to be with me when I breathe it all?
Who else would take your place and hold and keep me safe?
Who else would ever stay?

- Emma Ruth Rundle, Marked For Death

Hold on

there's only so much letting go
you can ask someone to do
so I keep you by my side
I will not give you to the tide

- Big Thief, Masterpiece

Still here, with my memories

Hold on
to the night
their will be no shame

- Erasure, Always

On memories

I don't want another rock
to hang about my neck
you see bejewelled
I see bedecked
in dead stars

- Alison Moyet, Other

Night falls

Do you miss me, miss me, darling?
God knows I'm missing you
I can see two worlds colliding
That's what the sickness brought me to

- Mark Lanegan,  Nocturne

Losing control

Your mind
Is not your own

- Robert Palmer, Addicted To Love

I wait

a year goes by
she doesn't

- The Magnetic Fields, If You Don't Cry

Alone

I can't
She said
I'd save you
But I can't love

- Chelsea Wolfe, 16 Psyche

Home is in your arms

Just give me this one night
Just one night
to feel
Like I might be
on the right path
The path that takes me home
Wise enough to know myself...

- Everything, Everything No Reptiles

Fuck the pain away

People like you fuck people like me
In order to avoid agony
People like you fuck people like me
In order to avoid suffering

- Hole, Samantha

Heaven, how long?

Can't you see what you've done
to my heart
and soul
It's such a wasteland now

- Interpol, Slow Hands

On hope

So don't go dark on me
It's all alright
If I'm gonna get back to you someday
I'll need your light

- The National, Walk It Back

We're only here for a while, and it's all, all a joke

From far, from eve and morning
And yon twelve winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither; here am I.

Now - for a breath I tarry
Nor yet disperse apart -
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.

Speak now, and I will answer;
How shall I help you, say;
Ere to the wind's twelve quarters
I take my endless way.

- A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

On anger

Don't do this,
I don't do this to you
Don't expect me to enjoy it

-The National, The Day I Die

On love, yet again

I loved a woman . Beautiful, beautiful woman, but so serious. This frowning face in the middle of a daisy. She had a way a walking, processional, like she was walking to her own funeral.

- Battlestar Galactica, series 3 episode 18

Everyday heartbreak

You're like no one I know,
You're the light from another world.

You swallow me whole,
With just a mumbled hello

And it breaks my heart to love you

It breaks my heart to love you.

- Editors, Sugar

I'm in a state

And all the wine is all for me
All the wine is all for me

- The National, All The Wine

In the jaws of the black eyed dog

Your body never made it past the
snow
K
line
fangs
about my throat

- Everything, Everything, Distant Past

My memories of you

This is my time with you

I'm not giving it back

- Garbage, We Never Tell

They say eventually I'll forget, but...

And I say
oh no sir
I must say you're wrong
I must disagree
oh no sir
I must say you're wrong

- Q Lazzarus, Goodbye Horses

These methods of escape cannot drive you from my heart, no matter how hard I try

I’ve gotta let go
I’ve gotta get straight
Why’d you have to make it so hard?
Let me get away

- Nine Inch Nails, Various Methods Of Escape

A motto for life

Thoughts black,  hands apt,  drugs fit

- Hamlet

On the end of my first therapeutic relationship

You came on your own
that's how you'll leave
with hope in your hand
and air to breath

- Editors, An End Has A Start

I miss you so much

You have been gone for so long

I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide

- British Sea Power, Carrion

Always missing you

If I go I wanna be in your arms

But I don't need a cure

I just wanna be yours

- Honeyblood, Love Is A Disease

I can't let go

I know I should go
but I follow you
like man a possessed
there's a traitor here beneath my breast
and it hurts me more than you've ever guessed

- Spike, in Buffy The Vampire Slayer,  

"Once More with Feeling"

On one's shadow side... sometimes

Just an impotent wraith, buzzing in your ear.

- Stark, in Farscape (Series 3, Episode 1)

On process

It's not a religion, it's just a technique
It's just a way of making you speak
Distance and speed have left us too weak
And destination looks kind of bleak

- The Church, Destination

Just shout, and I'll be there

I've got you under my skin
where the rain can't get in
but if the sweat pours out
just shout 
I'll try to swim and pull you out

- The The, Uncertain Smile

Time goes by

I am all the days
that you choose to ignore

Radiohead, All I Need

No bodies pt 2

Nobody lingers
like your hands on my heart
Nobody figures
like you figured me out

- Sleater-Kinney, Oh!

No bodies pt1

No bodies ever knew
No bodies ever felt like you

- Smashing Pumpinks, No bodies

She came into my head last night

and when I wake every morning with a new broken heart
I let her out
I let her in

- Steve Mason, I Let Her In

Give me something to cling to any day

You're gonna be fine. You're gonna spend a long thinking you won't be, but then one morning you'll wake up and you will be, and you know for a while you'll miss the fact that you're not because it almost seems scarier than when you are, because at least when you're not at least you've got something to cling to and then, when you've got over that, you're gonna be fine.

- Spaced

Forever isn't long enough

You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

You have left your marks on each other, you have helped shape one another; you have each given the other an accent to their life which they will never quite lose; no matter.

- Iain Banks, The Bridge

I think about life and I think about death

and I'm alive
and I'm alone
and I never wanted to be either of those

- Chemical Brothers, Alive Alone

And now I know

I'm waiting for a time
that I can be without
these things that make me feel
this way all of the time

- Spirtualized, Medication

On the edge

Hello, hello
I'm at a place called vertigo
It's everything I wish I didn't know

- U2, Vertigo